Ethereal (06-11-2018),Orion Rules (06-12-2018)
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
I believe in government by the people we elect. We certainly can't have a democracy here.
To argue against government is to argue for anarchy. That's not a workable way to live.Anarchy will always lead to dictatorship. How you expect to have anything without government is Marxist thinking.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
I agree that we do not need a revolution at this time. However, the relationship between the government and it's governed isn't static. It's constantly getting worse , so there may come a day when there are no other options.
As for how it would turn out, don't be too sure. For example our imperialism swats armies down like flies but often cannot fully handle "insurgencies" AKA rebels. And even "tory types" would not put up with troops killing Amerians on the 6:00 O'clock news ever night and neither would a great many of the troops.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
I think it is wrong to take something from a person that you do not like. I had a family member who hated another family member but had no problem asking for help from that family member that they hated, but they would never do anything in return for that family member. I had a talk with them and told them if we hate a person so much it is not right to take from them.
If our establishment has elitest views and beileves the common man is not good enough or smart enough to be anything but a slave. It is wrong to take from that person. You take 1/2 of that persons paycheck. You will allow them to believe falsley that they live in a democracy. You will happily let that person serve and die for your nation. You do it through trickery. You give that person a sense of WE and they lay down their life for WE.
But in reality you have no care or respect for that person, they are regarded as front line infantry. That explains alot. That explains why we dont even take care of our vets. You can see the proof all around homeless vets and hurt vets not being taken care of. But even thought the proof is all around. The poor younlings take the lie the bait hook line and sinker and become another statistic.
We should not use a person who we loath. We should not take from them, especially not their life. We should not teach them that they have rights and freedom. We should not teach them that they matter if they do not. We teach those lies becasue we know what is right, and then we do what is wrong, but pretend we arent. I had a family member who was mistreating their children, in public they talked sweetly to the child and made it look as though they were the best parents in the world. But at home they would abuse and say violent words to the children. Why? Why did they act different in public? It is becasue those types of actions are unnaceptable. That is what our nation is doing to us.
We are all brothers and sisters in humanity. We are all made from the same dust of stars. We cannot be separated because all life is interconnected.
barb012 (06-12-2018)
Just AnotherPerson (06-11-2018)
Maybe and maybe not. You might have food, but little else. Coastal America would have imports. One bad weather year and much of middle America could be wiped out by drought and tornadoes that they don't seem to have had any historical problem with taking government charity to fix, nevermind the flooding of the Mississippi river. If that were to happen then middle America would have starvation and thus internal fighting for food and water. All of those bank loans keeping farms afloat would disappear. Seasonal labor to keep those massive industrial farms functional would disappear. Crops could rot in the fields. Hungry people could change sides. Middle America conveniently forgets how much help it gets from the rest of America when times are tough. Let's also not forget how much middle American agriculture is dedicated to non-food crops. Middle American cities are not going to survive on corn grown for biofuel. It's inedible. Let's not also forget all of the farm subsidies that allow farmers to make a living or the fact that family farms growing food crops are few and far between. Fewer than 5% of middle American farms are family owned and operated and are likely to grow more than a single crop. Most farm production is intended for export and concentrates on things like corn and wheat. I wouldn't be so certain that middle America would necessarily outlast the rest of America.
It would be a shame to be living in farm country and not have enough to eat.
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi